Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 17 Into the life of a Porno, baskets^entered^_everj day from^hisbirth to his death. He was cradled in a pappoose basket, andin it, hung by a broad band on his mothers brow, he made hisearly journeys. His home was a great thatched basket, histoys^ere baskets modeled after the large ones that he from a da-14, or flat basket, and drank fromgi round tci-m£L. The seeds from which his meal wasmade were ground in amu-tci, or mortar basket, andhis fish and meat were cooked in large mush bowls or tci-mas, and a large tci-m^ was his
Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 17 Into the life of a Porno, baskets^entered^_everj day from^hisbirth to his death. He was cradled in a pappoose basket, andin it, hung by a broad band on his mothers brow, he made hisearly journeys. His home was a great thatched basket, histoys^ere baskets modeled after the large ones that he from a da-14, or flat basket, and drank fromgi round tci-m£L. The seeds from which his meal wasmade were ground in amu-tci, or mortar basket, andhis fish and meat were cooked in large mush bowls or tci-mas, and a large tci-m^ was his water-bucket. His fish. Red-Bud or Mille. was caught in a baiyat-au or fish-net basket, his meal waswinnowed in winnowing baskets and screened in a pa-s6 orsieve basket. When he traveled, his belongings were carried ina bu-gi, the conical burden basket, and these answered forevery purpose for which we use a wheelbarrow or wagon. Ifhe gardened, his fences were of wickerware, and he trapped birdsand game in long cylindrical baskets. On Clear Lake the artof basketry applied to tules was used in making canoes. Was it wonderful, then, that a people to whom baskets wereso much should have exhausted their ingenuity in weaves andshapes, interwoven their mythology and superstition in the
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